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Padi Specialty - Underwater Navigation |
This course is designed to be an introduction to underwater navigation and to
help the student diver develop the skills and knowledge necessary for use in
underwater navigation.
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This course include the following:
- 1. The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems
and hazards of underwater navigation.
- 2. Methods of estimating distances underwater.
- 3. Natural navigation techniques.
- 4. Using underwater patterns.
- 5. Dive site relocation techniques.
- 6. Compass navigation techniques.
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Prerequisites
To qualify for the Underwater Navigator course, an individual must:
- 1. Be certified as a Padi Open Water Diver, Padi Junior Open
Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another
training organization.
- 2. Be 10 years of age or older.
- 3. Submit, to the instructor, medical clearance for diving signed by a physician, attesting to fitness to dive. The medical clearance must be current within the previous 12 months. The physician signing the form cannot be the individual.
- 4. Sign the Certified Diver Experience
Programs Liability Release
- 5. Assumption of Risk form.
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